I am new as I stated. My circumstances are unusual as I have tried to gain custody of my grandaughter. This is is an emotionally abused child who I have had in and out of my house (more in) since her birth 2 years ago. Upon recieving a letter from my daughter that this childs father wrote as to where he has homicidal fantasies and those of canabilsm and is afraid he will hurt this child I went to my county court and recieved a restraining order on her behalf against the father. My daughter and him was going to give full custody to my husband and I until CPS stepped in. They decided that they wanted to preserve that family unit even though both stated in court they were divorcing to which they have not done and continue to live together. The juvilie court system and CPS let this child go right back into that house knowing of the restraing orde from another county court sysytem.
My husband and I had problems with our middle daughter 15 years ago with her being unruly and running away, this is the "history" that Clermont County Ohio CPS used against us even though all was unsubstanitated claims. This child is now 30 years old and has a well adjusted life and she was not taken from us so we couldn't have been too bad of parents.
My daughter and her husband also have a CPS file for abuse against this child and her brother but that "history" was not brought up in court even though the family has even taken them pictures nothing has been done about it.
Now we wait everyday for a phone call to what has triggered this man off and he has hurt this child. It's not a question of if the question is when? and we know with his current mental state it won't be long from the letters he writes. The county court where I live put the restraining order in effect until 2010 that he could not be alone with this child but the Clemont County court ignored it.
We are now at a total loss to help this child and to love her and keep her safe.
This has totally destroyed our family has now my daughter is alone with him and these children. We have been humiliated and used by her and the CPS workers as well as the Clermont Court system in Ohio. The local CASA advocate was in court (suppose to be on babys behalf) that was a joke also, they did no investigation of their own whatever the CPS worker said was what happened. We were denied access to any records from the past and given a summary of them as we walked into the courtroom by CPS even though she was in the waiting room with us for the 1/2 hour we was early for the court date.
The entire court hearing took 5 min. we was not allowed to present anything unless it was against the state so the judge said, of course CPS had already submitted their work to the court and the decision had been made before the court hearing started.
Upon contacting an attorney before this hearing we were told we would be wasting 1500 bucks because once Clermont County CPs made the decision no matter what it was final they do not change their minds and sometimes its too late. That is our fear here that it will be too late for these children especially the granddaughter since these threats were made directly to her in these letters and statements from the father.
We were told we had a stable home and were financially able to support this child by the investigation. We had the child in a program where she was devolping her skills for her age level and she was talking now, she also was now able to hear from surgery for ear tubes since in our care. Now she is no longer in any of the programs to help her and she is now back on public welfare.
We don't understand this system how they can be so selective when using this "history" as they call it against one person and not all. The stsyem in this county deffinetly has it's flaws to say the least. The workers at CPS were rude when we tried to speak to them and refused to release any files at all. When trying to find out exactly who they answer to all we got was the run around which is typical. Now we wait for that dreaded phone call and we are so afraid it will come.
